Gary S. Becker

Born: 1930-12-02 in Pottsville, PA, USA

Gender: male

Field: American economist (1930–2014)

Biography

Gary Stanley Becker was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.

Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992

Awarded on: 1992-10-13

"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour"

Affiliations:

University of Chicago – Chicago, IL, USA

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